French graphic shows free-flying shuttle placing new arrays at end of truss

French graphic shows free-flying shuttle placing new arrays at end of truss,
that will become 'the foundation for the European and Japanese modules'.
And it's using the OBSS to do the installation (or the drawing is left-right
reversed).
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...65974581220bbd
Hey, it's a French news agency -- what did you expect, accuracy?

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:39:16 GMT, "Jim Oberg"
wrote:


French graphic shows free-flying shuttle placing new arrays at end of truss,
that will become 'the foundation for the European and Japanese modules'.
And it's using the OBSS to do the installation (or the drawing is left-right
reversed).
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...65974581220bbd
Hey, it's a French news agency -- what did you expect, accuracy?


I rather liked the graphic, especially the view of the Shuttle Stack
that shows the SRB's mounted OVER the wings. cough

Jim Oberg wrote:
French graphic shows free-flying shuttle placing new arrays at end of truss,
that will become 'the foundation for the European and Japanese modules'.
And it's using the OBSS to do the installation (or the drawing is left-right
reversed).
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...65974581220bbd
Hey, it's a French news agency -- what did you expect, accuracy?

Actually, that graphic is the easiest to understand that I have seen
pointing out what will be added to the station.

Chris J. wrote:

I rather liked the graphic, especially the view of the Shuttle Stack
that shows the SRB's mounted OVER the wings. cough

I just skimmed Heppenheimer and Jenkins, and that's a design variant
they both missed. Just goes to show you there's always room for
innovation...

Jim Oberg wrote:
French graphic shows free-flying shuttle placing new arrays at end of truss,
that will become 'the foundation for the European and Japanese modules'.
And it's using the OBSS to do the installation (or the drawing is left-right
reversed).

I'm more intrigued by the SRBs which are now mounted over the orbiter
wings. Must be one of the RTF modifications I wasn't aware of.

Curiously, this novel SRB configuration seems to appear both the French
graphic, and also in their copy of the mission patch. How'd that
happen?

By comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:STS-115_patch.png